42 and 44, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Cottages.

42 and 44, High Street

WRENN ID
night-balcony-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1987
Type
Cottages
Address
42 and 44, High Street, North Tawton
OS grid reference
SS 664 015
Coordinates
50.79781, -3.89641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 42 and 44 on High Street are a pair of cottages dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. They feature rendered cob walls and a gable-ended asbestos tile roof, with two brick gable end stacks. Each cottage has a two-room plan, with a larger heated room on the outside and stairs behind a smaller service room, adjoining at the center. The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical four-window front, featuring two windows for each cottage. The windows are late 19th or early 20th century four-light casements, each with a door at the center. No. 44 on the left has a 19th-century four-panel door, while No. 42 has a 20th-century panelled door beneath a gabled doorhood. Inside No. 42, there are narrow chamfered cross beams with run-out stops, and the fireplace has a rough wooden lintel.

Local climate

42 and 44, High Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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